GOP Sen. Brown calls for Holder to resign

"He can't effectively serve the president," Brown said Wednesday on a local Boston-area radio program, "Nightside With Dan Rea," as first reported by the Boston Herald.

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“For the best interest of the country, I think he should step down and resign. He’s lost the confidence of the American people. Certainly he’s lost the confidence of Congress. He misled Congress. They have a right to know,” said the freshman GOP senator.

Brown is the latest in a growing number of GOP lawmakers calling on the attorney general to step down in the wake of congressional investigations into the ATF’s botched Fast and Furious gun-tracking operation.

The House Oversight Committee voted last week along party lines to recommend a contempt citation for the embattled attorney general, claiming he failed to respond to a subpoena for documents related to the Fast and Furious probe. The vote by the House is expected on Thursday.

Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has accused the administration of obstructing the investigation after President Obama asserted executive privilege last week to withhold documents on the DOJ operation.

Democrats, though, accuse the House GOP of using the probe to score political points and embarrass Obama and Holder.

Brown repeated calls for the administration to turn over documents requested by House GOP lawmakers. “There should be a full and fair exchange of information so we can get to the bottom of it,” he said.

“The Republicans think they’ve got something here, and he’s just trying to see if he can turn up the temperature on it. I think this is why people get disgusted by politics,” she said during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show.”